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Jean Barois is the story of a young Roman Catholic intellectual who breaks with church and family, becomes a freethinker, wins a reputation as a progressive by pleading the cause of Dreyfus. Gradually (after his carriage accident) he becomes dissatisfied with materialist answers to matters of life & death, and in the end returns to the fold...
...third act starts off with an argument between a Catholic priest and the lover, who has been reading a communist journal. The padre's academic argument (there are only six pleasures of the flesh, but what fun you can have with the immortal soul) scarcely resolves the religious-materialist conflict...
...packed his thinking on peace and war, non-violence and violence, love and law, justice and coercion, into ten provocative words: "Christianity stands for the consecration, not the elimination, of force." Another sentence shows the originality, daring, and germinal nature of his theological thinking: "Christianity is the most avowedly materialist of all the great religions...
Taking its cue, the Academy hastily dashed off a note to Scientist Stalin: "You, our dear leader and teacher, have helped Soviet scientists day in, day out, to develop our progressive materialist science serving the people in all its labors and exploits, a science expressing the ideology and lofty aims of the man of the new Socialist society . . . Advanced biological science rejects and pillories the erroneous idea that nature cannot be guided by the human control of conditions...
...Sorbonne, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain had recoiled from the materialist philosophies of their professors. They had even brooded about a suicide pact, until Philosopher Henri Bergson's lectures opened their eyes to the possibility of a truth beyond reason. Then they read two of Bloy's books. Wrote Maritain: "All the values we gave to things were put in different places, as if by the turning of an invisible switch. We knew . . . from then on that 'there is but one sadness, and that is, not to be of the saints' . . ." Maritain and his wife...